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Travel Advice -
Money security
while traveling
When you are walking in crowds and see someone giving people the top to
bottom scan, watch out. They are looking for bulges indicating the
location of wallets or valuables.
- Carry money, passport, traveler checks, ATM cards, credit cards, airline
tickets, and additional identification in your
money belt.
- Carry the cash you need for
the day and personal identification in your wallet. Store the wallet in
one of your front pants pockets.
- Some travelers wrap rubber bands around
their wallet, claiming that the rubber bands make it more difficult for a
pickpocket to remove the wallet from the pocket.
If you carry a purse, carry it across your chest away from
the curb, not
hanging from a shoulder towards the curb.
Do not show large amounts of money or be seen spending it in a cavalier
manner.
- Either action signals thieves that you could be a lucrative
target.
Do not carry your credit cards or ATM cards in your wallet.
- Keep them
out of sight in your money
belt.
- If you need to retrieve something from your money belt,
head to a restroom, enter a stall, and extract it while hidden from view.
- Do not expose your money belt to public view.
Keep a close watch on your credit card during any transaction.
- When the
card is returned to you after a charge at a restaurant or hotel, make sure
that the card you have been given is your card.
- After use of the card,
return it to your money belt as soon as possible.
Always keep a pocket filled with small change to handle minor
purchases.
- Use this technique to avoid showing your wallet and revealing
where you keep it stored.
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